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Wild Yak is Aussie(West Aussie originally) you absolute melt. Everything you've said is largely inaccurate. Sir Balon don't take everything he says as gospel mate... will respond to other stuff tomorrow after this first fucking school week is over. nightmare

Depends where I am, who I'm with etc. I spend a fair bit of time in English pubs here for the sole reason they're the only places really that show English football, so in that case it will be pints. Everywhere else it's cañas or bottled beers. Cañas wouldn't work in England but if there's one thing Spain has taught me over the years is that you really don't have to drink a bucket load when you go out. Drinking is at a much slower pace here (as is everything really) and often there will be a lot of food that accompanies the drinking. Don't get me wrong there's a time and place where I'd just want to go mental and drink everything but I've definitely learnt a small lesson here from Spanish culture. Yeah mate the first time I think I remember having Alhambra was last year in April and I was in Granada near the Alhambra palace funnily enough and we were sat up in the hills with a view of the whole city. It was hot, sun shining and it was just us and a couple of others in this bar which was pretty much hidden from all the tourists and we got free tapas (as of course in a lot of places in Granada it's free with any drink). So yeah good memories but trying not to judge the experience and more the beer itself, it's very decent, well above any average beer. Cruzcampo dominates Sevilla and I've seen Alhambra a lot less, may have to start looking out for it.

Haven't lived in London for about 4 years or so now mate so wouldn't know what's about, but I feel like the places that serve Japanese beer are the places I'd avoid on a count of my wallet thinning Australia's a weird country, British colony but very Americanised. The news is very dramatically American and where news channels/programmes at home are usually more about the channel/programme itself, the marketing out here is very big on singular news presenters. The only time I've really seen that in the UK is for Trevor McDonald. General television is very American in it's presentation, adverts for everything is quite dramatic and you'll be watching something and an infomercial for another show appears in the corner I only ever saw in America.. Australia is a very small country population-wise compared to the rest of the world and that definitely shows in popular culture, everything is very nationalistic and the word Aussie turns into an adjective half the time. Coming from someone who grew up with the impartiality of the BBC (or at least the effort to be impartial), it's strange to watch on tele all the time. Their TV in general is largely British and if something isn't British then it's probably a remake of a reality show that is. I imagine there's a greater selection on Foxtel (their Sky). Fashion is different, when I went to Melbourne everyone just wore tight jeans and long t-shirts whether it was during the day or night (shorts during the day mind). Melbourne is a very edgy city and prides itself on it's "culture", it's the closest thing you'll find to a European style city out here so I get why everyone loves it. I could live there quite happily, however it's not that great compared to European cities (London, Paris, Barcelona etc) and as an Englishman I'd come out here for the beach and Melbourne doesn't have good beaches. Sydney is very beachy in it's fashion so is completely different

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